Summary of experience in preschool children’s safety and first aid training

First, when a child has an accident, the first priority is not to send him to the hospital, but to seize the golden 1-minute window for pre-hospital treatment.； Second, the safety protection of preschool children has never been about "zero risk" over-restriction, but about helping children build risk judgment capabilities within a controllable range. In addition, I also found that there is no universal standard answer for emergency response to young children. The operational ideas under different scenarios and different staffings vary greatly. There is no need to worry about "whose method is more standard."

It’s quite interesting to say that when we were practicing the Heimlich exercise on the second day of training, the two teachers in our group almost got into an argument. One is Sister Zhang, who runs a private daycare center. She said that they had previously received disease control training requirements. As long as they find something stuck in the child's airway, no matter what the situation is, pat the child's back 5 times. If there is no response, immediately squeeze the upper abdomen. The most important thing is to seize time. ； Another is Mr. Li, a health doctor in a public park. He said that their standard is to first determine the consciousness, dial 120 as soon as possible, and ask someone to take a video and keep a certificate before the operation to avoid subsequent disputes. The two of them were blushing because of the argument. In the end, the emergency nurse who taught the class gave the correct answer: Both ideas are correct. If you are alone with a dozen children outdoors and there is no one else around, you must rush to save the baby first. ； If there is a health doctor and other teachers in the kindergarten, of course they will handle the matter while calling for help and keeping a certificate. It is not a black and white matter.

When I heard this, I remembered the incident in middle class last year. A little boy took advantage of me to tie the shoelaces of other children and secretly took out the jelly from his schoolbag and stuffed it into his mouth. He got stuck in the mouth after two mouthfuls. His face turned red and he was speechless. I didn't know anything about pre-hospital treatment at that time, so I ran to the gate with the child in my arms, thinking of driving to the hospital quickly. Uncle Wang, the doorman, had some experience, so he came over and lifted the child upside down, patted the child three times between the shoulder blades, and the jelly spit out with a "pop". Looking back now, it takes 8 minutes to drive from our kindergarten to the nearest children's hospital. If the jam was deeper at that time, I really can't think of those 8 minutes.

In the past, when we held teaching seminars in our kindergarten, we always talked about "zero safety incidents." In order to prevent accidents, we kept the highest level of the slide sealed all year round. We were not allowed to bring any small shovels or small molds in the sand pool for fear that children would stuff their noses and ears. Even the scissors in the art area could only use round-headed ones, and I had to hand them to each one before they could be used. As a result, the child injury prevention experts invited for this training said that there are actually two completely different protection ideas in the industry. One is our "zero risk" control, and the other is the recently popular "risk play", which deliberately leaves a little controllable risk for children. For example, let them touch 40-degree warm water to know what "hot" means. They are allowed to bring small parts when playing in the sand. The teacher is watching and takes it out in time if it is stuffed into their noses. It is much better than children who have no idea at all and stuff a button battery in when adults are not paying attention. I was quite shocked when I heard that. I used to think that it was responsible to keep a close eye on children and not let them touch anything dangerous. Now I think, we can't just follow our children around for the rest of our lives, right?

There were also some operations that I had taken for granted before, but I realized after this training that they were all wrong. For example, if my child has a nosebleed, I used to have him raise his head and raise his arms. This time I learned that raising his head will cause blood to flow back into the trachea, and in severe cases, it can cause suffocation. The correct way is to lower your head and pinch both sides of the nose for 10 minutes. In our group, there was Aunt Liu who had been a childcare worker for 18 years. She slapped her thigh on the spot and said that she had raised her children for two generations and that she had to tell the other old sisters in the garden immediately when she got back that she couldn’t make another mistake. There are also children who kowtow. Before, we always thought that we should rub them quickly to reduce swelling. In fact, we can’t rub them at all. We have to first check whether there is vomiting and confusion. If there is intracranial bleeding, rubbing will make things worse.

After the past few days of training, I didn’t take any neat notes. Instead, I saved a lot of practical videos on my phone and passed them on to other teachers in the kindergarten. It’s not that I’ve become a first aid expert now, but that I’ve always been worried about raising a baby before is now a little more at ease – it’s not that nothing will happen, but that if something does happen, I know what to do in the first minute, and I won’t run around with my baby like before. Also, when I play with my children now, I no longer shout "no running" or "no touching" as I did before. Yesterday when we were playing on the slide outdoors, I removed the seal on the top layer and stood below to continue. The children were squealing while playing and no one fell. It was pretty good.